Typewriter-desk



W. F. OLSON.

TYPEWRITER DESK.

APPLlCATlON FILED NOV. l2 1919.

1,855,772. Patented Oct. 12,1920.

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WILLIAM F. OLSON, OFIOQMAHA, NEBRASKA.

TYPEWRITER-DESK.

Specification of Letters Patent. Patented. Oct. 12, 1920.

App1ication filed November 12, 1919. Serial No. 337,414.

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Be it known that I, WILLIAM F. OLSON, a

A citizen of the United States, and a resident of Omaha, in the county of Douglas and State of Nebraska, have invented a new and Improved Typewriter-Desk, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description. j i

This invention relates to improvements in typewriter desks, an object of the invention being to provide a desk having a central channel in which a typewriter supporting platform is movable and adapted to move rearwardly into a housing with a trap door covering the channel and held in closed position by the doors of the housing so that when the typewriter is not in use, the desk will serve as any ordinary device of this character.

A further object is to provide a desk of the character stated with an improved arrangement of pigeon'holes and drawers and which provides ample smooth surface for the distribution and support of papers when the typewriter is not in use and when the typewriter is in use provides ample surface for the accommodation of such notebooks and papers as may be necessary.

With these and other objects in view the invention consists in certain novel features of construction, and combinations and arrangements of parts, as will be more fully hereinafter described and pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings- Figure 1 is a perspective view showing the desk in normal position;

Fig. 2 is a similar view showing the parts in position when the typewriter supporting platform is moved outwardly;

Fig. 3 is a view in vertical longitudinal section through the center of the desk; and

Fig. A is a perspective view of the typewriter supporting platform 11.

My improved desk comprises a table 1 supported on legs 2 and having a cabinet 3 on its upper rear portion. This cabinet 3 is provided at its ends with pigeon holes 4 and drawers 5 and at its center with a rectangular housing 6 normally closed by hinged doors 7 at the front thereof. A channel 8 is provided in the central portion of the table and extends back into the housing 6. In the bottom of this channel 8 rails 9 are located and support rollers 10 at the edges of the typewriter supporting platform 11.

This platform 11 is provided inits upper surface with recesses 12 adapted to accommodate the feet of a t pewriter so as to prevent movement of the typewriter on the platform. I

A hinged trap door 13 is adapted to close the top of channel 8 at the front thereof and a hinged gate 14 is adapted to close the end of the channel and is provided with a catch 15 which engages the trap door 13 and secures the parts together.

, It will be noted that the doors 7 are hinged to theouter portions of-the forward ends of the side members of the housing 6 and that said housing extends slightly beyond the pigeon holes 4 and the drawers 5 so that when the drawers are in closed position, they are located over the trap door 13 and serve to hold the trap door in closed po sition. lVhen the doors are open, they will be moved outwardl and rearwardly far enough to uncover t e trap door and allow the same to be opened or thrown back to the position shown "in Fig. 2, so'that the type- 'writer platform 11 can be moved forwardly from the housing 6 into operative position. I wish to reserve the right to add extra drawers and to use roller'top if so desired.

Various slight changes may be made in the general form and arrangement of parts described without departing from the invention, and hence I do not limit myself to the precise details set forth but consider myself at liberty to make suchchanges and altera tions as fairly fall within the spirit and scope of the appended claims. 7 I claim:

1. A desk of thecharacter described, comprising a table having a channel therein, a typewriter supporting platform movable longitudinally of the channel, a housing supported on the table and covering the rear portion of the channel, a hinged trap door adapted to close the top of the channel at its forward portion, and a hinged door on the front of the housing positioned, when closed,

over the platform and positioned, when open, to one side of the platform.

2. A desk of the character described, comprising a table having a channel'therein, a typewriter supporting platform movable longitudinally of the channel, a housing supported on the table and covering the rear portion of the channel, a hinged trap door adapted to close the top of the channel at its forward portion, and a pair of doors hinged to the front and at the sides of the housing, said doors, when closed, ada ted'to be positioned over the platform an platform.

3. A desk of the character stated, comprising a table having a central channel therein, rails in the channel, a typewriter supporting platform, rollers on the platform mounted onthe rails, a cabinet supported on the table, and having a central housing 10- When open 10- cated out of the path of movement of the cated over the rear portion of the channel, doors closing the 7 front of the housing, pigeon holes and drawers located'in the cabinet at the'sides of the housing, a hinged trap door adapted to close the top of the channel at its forward end, and a hinged gate adapty ed to-close the front end of the channel.

' WILLIAM F. OLSON.

Witness: 1 g C. W. CARNABY. 

